| Description | /1: 8 March 1839: possibility of starting mission work amongst the 'Indians' by approaching through Chile, including visit to Corbolan, chief of the Moluka; describes journeys to Quinchinlea, Lake Ranco, Osoono and north of Valdivia. /2: 15 March 1839: corrected copy of /1; /3: 28 April 1842: impossibility of mission work in South America because of Roman Catholic opposition; urges opening for mission work in the Straits of Magalhaen and describes Patagonian peoples; encloses memorandum of articles needful for a missionary to Patagonia. |